diy projects
Robot Poker Chips and Heated Dice: Engineering a Casino Cheat
Mark Rober invited makers to beat his casino with hardware. A self-driving poker chip, wax-loaded dice and a wearable card counter were the result.
diy projects
This LED Staff Turns a Teensy 4.1 Into a Handheld PoV Display
A Teensy 4.1, a strip of addressable LEDs and an IMU turn a hand-spun staff into a persistence-of-vision display. Here is how to build…
diy projects
Motion-Reactive LED Devil Horns Built on an RP2040 Prop Feather
Paper-mache horns lined with 4 mm NeoPixel strip, an RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather reading your head gestures, and two animations that answer with fire.
microcontrollers
SensWear Puts an Open Source Wearable Stack on the nRF54L15
SensWear bundles an nRF54L15 board, swappable PPG, temperature and touch sensor modules, Zephyr firmware and open SDKs to fast-track wearable prototypes.
diy projects
Penn State’s Paint-On Electronic Tattoos Read ECG, EEG and EMG
Penn State's brush-on conductive ink turns bare skin into a washable electrode that records ECG, EEG and EMG, and even drove a robotic hand.
diy projects
Thread-Based Circuits Sew Health Monitoring Into Your Clothes
Tufts researchers built full analog circuits on a single gold-coated thread that senses breathing and blinking. Here is how to try sewable electronics yourself.
arduino
Meet Pinch: A 32-Bit Arduino Board Smaller Than a Fingernail
The Moddo Pinch is a 32-bit Arduino-compatible dev board just 10.5 x 10.9 mm, packing a SAM D11, 15 GPIO pins, and an RGB…
diy projects
Weekend Build: A DIY SteamVR AR Headset on an ATmega32u4 PCB
Maker Manolo's Sideloader 3.3 packs SteamVR head tracking into a wearable AR headset built on a bare ATmega32u4 chip and a custom PCB, no…
robotics
Magnetic FMG Sensors and AI Give Prosthetic Hands Precise Control
Florida Atlantic University swapped noisy EMG for magnetic force myography sensors and a per-user AI model to give prosthetic hands far steadier control.
diy projects
RP2040 Wristwatch Tells Time With a Vintage VU Meter Needle
Meet the one-needle wristwatch that pairs a vintage VU meter with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 to show time, date, and day across printed analog…
wearables
Pimoroni RP2350 Badgeware: Smart Wearable Badges for Makers
Pimoroni's RP2350 Badgeware turns conference badges into smart programmable wearables - e-paper, buttons, RGB LEDs, and a hackable Pi-grade core.